>   Tony> undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded 
> section .exit.text'
> 
>   Tony> message.  Is this related to the warning about using 
> an old linker?
> 
> Not likely.  It sounds like a driver is failing to use __exit_p() (see
> linux/init.h).

The offending driver is i460-agp.c.  Patch attached.

-Tony